CBS’s Clarice once again places fledgling FBI agent Clarice Starling in the driver’s seat, picking up one year after the events of Academy Award-winning The Silence of the Lambs. This time without her training wheels, her incarcerated guide Dr. Hannibal Lecter, who legally can’t appear or even get name-dropped. She’s on her own and thrust into the world. Arriving in the wake of mega-popular films and series centered around everyone’s favorite cannibalistic serial killer, poor Clarice has a steep mountain to climb to carve out her own space. Based on the first three episodes screened, Clarice sets up fascinating story threads on the psychological toll evil causes while presenting an unsettling look at agency politics.